by Kathi Leiden | Mar 16, 2016 | Helium, Helium News
Imagine enjoying martinis and small plates at the bar, but that bar happens to be floating quietly over the Earth at the black edge of space. That’s some wild dream! Except it’s quite real, and for $75,000 you can reserve a bar stool for an upcoming...
by Kathi Leiden | Jan 28, 2016 | Helium, Helium News
Yep, you read that right. A birthday helium balloon drifted into India this week, prompting national panic and a hailstorm of aerial gunfire. The Indian Air Force (IAF) announced this week that they had picked up “a shiny, unidentified object” on radar entering Indian...
by Kathi Leiden | Jan 12, 2016 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
There might be one way to try to find out if North Korea really detonated a hydrogen bomb: Test for helium present in the skies. Hydrogen bomb claim When North Korea released a statement announcing the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, the world immediately rallied to...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 12, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
You don’t really hear about it in the U.S., but there is a moon race going on right now and it’s all centered around mining helium-3. China is going to the moon. Japan has plans to. Russia claims it does as well. NASA—not so much, but a billionaire has...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 11, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science, Helium Uses
Imagine, something the size of a pea worth $5 million. That’s the value of helium-3 and while it’s rare on Earth, the moon is full of it. Why do you care? Need regular helium gas? Just mine our warehouses! Get a free Zephyr helium quote here. What is...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 8, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
By smashing together gold and helium-3 ions, a particle collider has created tiny droplets of the same primordial soup formed at the Big Bang. What is this primordial goo? It’s the state of matter that existed at the very birth of the universe, nearly...
